Emergencies in Neuromuscular Disease

This book offers a practical tool for handling neuromuscular emergencies, and is divided by the main neuromuscular diseases on the basis of their anatomical and clinical location: diseases affecting the anterior horn of the spinal cord (tetanus), those that affect the nerve roots and nerves (SGB, mu...

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Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Other Authors: Agostoni, Elio. (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt)
Language:English
Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2017.
Edition:1st ed. 2017.
Series:Emergency Management in Neurology,
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-56654-2
Table of Contents:
  • Preface
  • Glossary
  • Part I. Neuromuscular Disease: Recent Progress in Diagnosis and Therapy
  • Neuromuscular Disease: An Overview
  • Tetanus
  • Guillain-Barré Syndrome
  • Porphyria
  • Vasculitis
  • Myasthenia Gravis
  • Botulism
  • Malignant Hyperthermia
  • Rhabdomyolysis
  • Periodic Paralysis.-Part II. Case Studies
  • Case Study: Atypical GBS
  • Part III. Differentiated Decisional Algorithms
  • Differentiated Decisional Algorithms Based on the Technical and Organizational Characteristics of the Hospital Receiving the Clinical Case.